China to help U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) China will give the United States intelligence it has gathered on terrorist groups in a show of support for the growing American campaign to put Osama bin Laden out of business.

The agreement to have counterterrorism experts meet next week in Washington emerged over a luncheon between Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and Secretary of State Colin Powell. 'We firmly oppose and strongly condemn all forms of terrorism and evil acts," Tang said.

Preliminary talks were held Friday with Frank Taylor, the new director of the State Department office on counterterrorism.

'We agreed to cooperate," Powell said at a joint news conference. 'They have their own problem with terrorism."

He said China had not asked the United States for anything in exchange for its cooperation.